The Geneva Shore Report

08/21/2025

GSR morning news report for Thursday, August 21, 2025

08/21/2025

GSR morning weather and road report for Thursday, August 21, 2025

08/21/2025

OPINION/EDITORIAL
August 20, 2025
Preparing for War

Front Page Preparing For War Right in front of the eyes, ears, and every other sense, the preparations by the current administration for going into a civil war are being laid out one a rapid-fire series of events after another. The creation of the new ICE operational force with selected mean-spirite...

08/21/2025

SPORTS LINE
August 25, 2025

SPORTS LINE The Milwaukee Brewers. This team has been the hottest team in Major League Baseball over the last few months. The Brewers have dealt with injuries left and right, but the pitching has helped Milwaukee navigate through them. There are plenty of factors that have played into Milwaukee turn...

08/21/2025

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
August 20, 2025

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

08/21/2025

LIVING HERE
August 20, 2025
1. Smokey skies
2. Place of the Week

LIVING HERE Smokey haze has become the norm for Wisconsin. Northwest winds and a high-pressure system in the upper Midwest have been pushing the smoke south into Wisconsin. Canada has been experiencing shorter winters and less precipitation, creating the ideal conditions for wildfires to start and s...

08/21/2025

THE BRIGHT SIDE
August 20, 2025
1. Back to School
2. Person of the Week

THE BRIGHT SIDE Summer is winding down, and it’s time to think about the upcoming school year. Badger High School and Lake Geneva Joint #1 Schools require an online registration process each year. Online registration has been available for returning students at Lake Geneva School since August 1st....

08/21/2025

SURPRISING STUFF
August 20, 2025
1. The 176th Walworth County Fair starts August 27
2. Lake Comus

SURPRISING STUFF The 176th Walworth County Fair starts, August 27th, and goes through Labor Day, September 1st. The theme this year is “As The Fair Turns”! The fairgrounds will be filled with an abundance of exhibits, exciting concerts, tractor and truck pulls, demolition derby, and so much more...

08/21/2025

LITTLEGEMS
August 20, 2025
1. The Lemonade Crawl
2. Drowning in Delavan Lake

LITTLE GEMS The Lemonade Crawl is back for its second year. Wednesday, August 20th, from 3 p.m. through 6 p.m. Twenty-five downtown businesses will be offering lemonade treats, including different lemonades and lemon-themed treats. The businesses will also be offering different promotions and discou...

08/21/2025

OUR PLACE
August 20, 2025
1. Traffic Signal at Edwards.
2. Maxwell Street Days
3. Lightning storm

OUR PLACE The last city council meeting voted to approve another traffic signal on Edwards Boulevard. The installation of a traffic signal will be very beneficial and create safer travel along this roadway. The first traffic signal installation at Bloomfield and Edwards took a bit of time and had ma...

08/21/2025

FRONT PAGE
August 20, 2025
Lake Geneva Police

The Geneva Shore Report ran a story last week in which the staff’s displeasure at the topsy-turvy and unnecessary way the purchase of a new police boat and the money to operate it were jammed through the police and fire commission and then the city council.

08/20/2025

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume VI, Chapter VI

Life changes for me from one of coming home to extreme complexity, the Christmas holiday with my family, fitting it all together somehow right up to when everything changed into a fight for short term, and then long term, survival and careers. Coming back at invisible enemies, kind of knowing that Mallorca had somehow followed me home and quite possibly meant that I could no longer go out on missions in a world where I was known as an agent of the CIA, I was in a familiar bind. I could not seem to move forward or back. Maybe up, as was suggested to me. One man, whom I believed behind the attempt on my life shows up for Christmas so completely idiotically and unexpectantly I didn't know what to do with him...or me.

Thanks so much for the support, in your comments and compliments, and to Craig Wilcox for the editing help on this chapter. Please contribute to this strange writing cause by commenting on here and on the Facebook sites if you will. Buying the next volume ahead of time also helps. If you have ordered boos and not received them then please write to me at [email protected] or call at 262 581 5300. Thank you so much!

The road that wasn’t a road appeared before me, as I crawled to come to its rough edge. I was facing Albuquerque. My sense of direction returned, and the terror of being killed, once again, was replaced by a dedicated desire to right the balance of justice in my favor, but I badly needed water [.....